TO COMMEMORATE THE ANNUAL SEAL HUNT, WHICH KICKED OFF IT'S FESTIVE SEASON YESTERDAY, AND TO HONOR THOSE POOR MISUNDERSTOOD SEAL HUNTERS, AND THEIR PLIGHT TO EKE OUT AN EXISTENCE IN THE HARSH CANADIAN WILDERNESS, I OFFER YOU A REVISITATION OF LAST YEAR'S POST.
In the above picture, "sealers" are using a long picklike tool to both separate and then kill the seals. (I have been told that this tool is called a "gaff") Although usually lethal, occasionally the seals are skinned alive. This, i'm sure, is quite painful and an unpleasant experience. The little, white fuzzy ones don't seem to be moving very fast... maybe they want to be clubbed? I doubt it, but Mother Nature is an odd one.I wish i had one of those pick thingies. They look cool.
This man seems to be enjoying his work. Evidently fishermen with their big boats can't compete with the fuzzy little devils, so they like to see bashed seal skulls. In fact at one point they would pay $0.20 per seal. Sounds like easy money to me.The meat used to be used as did the skins, but now the primary reasons seals are killed are for their penises (used in Chinese aphrodesiacs) and for enjoyment.
How can you not club a face like that?
I don't know... sometimes the idea of clubbing innocent animals to a screaming, bloody death calms me. Sometimes it just makes me hungry. I don't know.
Every year, when the time is "right" (as soon as the ice conditions permit), a small group of caucasian "hunters" find their way to the ice floes and proceed to club, bludgeon, stun, shoot, and dismember thousands of young and adult Harp seals in a brutal manner of which most people can hardly imagine. As many as 45% of the animals are skinned alive and the males are routinely dismembered for their penis bone alone. Moreover, independent observers have noted that as many as 1 out of 3 "targeted" seals slip away wounded into the ice holes and sea leads to be uncounted, unnoted, and unused in any way, shape, or form. Only small amounts of the seal's meat is processed and utilized in any manner. It is rarely eaten by non indigenous peoples for food due to its relatively heavy fatty and oily composition. Small amounts are used for the pet food trade or fur farms, while the rest is simply left to rot on the ice.
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Badgerbob...a re-posting? Come on...if I wanted to see the same thing as before I'd just turn on the TV.
Nym, Reprimand duly noted! Your admonishments bring me such pleasure. One day soon, I hope to be worthy of you, but for now, I languish on a ship of disparity, adrift in a sea of absurdity.
Willow, your harsh words bring such warmth to my furry body. I have long suspected that were an animal hater, and will promptly report you to PETA.
She is an investigator assigned to the malicious acts against badgers division, of our animal rights movement.
DOWN WITH WILLOW!!!!!!!
Badgerbob...it makes me so...so...so...slippery to know that my admonishments bring pleasure to your furry badger bits...
Most people know absolutely nothing about the seal hunt. Seals are not endangered. They are, however, very cute, which is why the idea of them being killed upsets so many people. The seal hunt condoned by the Canadian government allows the killing of 350,000 seals annually, not for their penises (geez!) but for everything-- their pelts, their meat, etc. Seal meat is actually eaten by many non-indiginous peoples, especially in Quebec. Seals are NOT skinned alive, and those who hunt them do so for the most part not because they are sick, sadistic bastards, but because in economically depressed parts of the country like Newfoundland and the Northwest Territories, the income they make from the seals is what keeps them out of poverty. Anyone who eats beef and condemns the seal hunt is a hypocrite; millions of acres of rainforest are cut down every year to make room for raising cattle, leading to the extinction of hundreds of thousands of species that, unlike seals, ARE engangered. In addition, the way that dairy cattle are treated in most of North America is disgustingly inhumane.
Nym, I have a visual.
BLue, that was a beautiful rant. Thank you. If I wasn't so against plagiarism, I would steal that and use it tomorrow.
willow, save a badger, club a human.
Thanks, badger. BTW I LOVED the Canadian Jokes.
Where did you find it? Interesting read » »
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